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title: Why, it's a mass of scarlet fever germs!-Burn it at once. — The Velveteen Rabbit · tree and pragmatics
description: Why, it's a mass of scarlet fever germs!-Burn it at once. Who acts: sand, mass. A sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The Velveteen Rabbit, Opening, sentence 172

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Why, it's a mass of scarlet fever germs!-Burn it at once.

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**Who acts:** sand, mass · **What happens:** be, burn · **To what, where:** mass, sand

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This is a sentence of «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sand, mass), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher.** This tree is Mova's own parse (the `en` model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg11757:1:172
# text = Why, it's a mass of scarlet fever germs!-Burn it at once.
1	Why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	's	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	mass	mass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	scarlet	scarlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	fever	fever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	germs	germ	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	NFP	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Burn	burn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	_
15	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | sand | a mass |  |  |  | of fever germs | tree rules |
| 2 | **burn** | infinitive | a mass | sand |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «The Velveteen Rabbit» by Margery Williams Bianco, Project Gutenberg book 11757 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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